Modernization
Transportation safety agency tees up regulations for driverless cars
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is looking at how to regulate self-driving cars.
Artificial Intelligence
OPM Offers Reskilling and Workforce Tools to Agency Heads
The Office of Personnel Management wants agencies to prepare for the workforce of the future.
Ideas
4 Steps to Managing Data During a Cloud Migration
Security doesn't have to be a sticking point.
Modernization
House Appropriators Take Aim at Some of the Pentagon’s Most Ambitious Tech Ideas
The new Congress is cold on many of the Pentagon’s most elaborate projects and plans.
Modernization
Study: Federal AI is a $1B market
A study from a leading trade group find that chief data officers are needed to help guide federal artificial intelligence efforts.
Modernization
Federal Acquisition Service Corrects IT Reseller Price Issues
The agency inspector general said the service took “appropriate corrective actions” to address price variances on Schedules.
Modernization
Pentagon Drops $75M To Beef Up Background Investigation's IT Environment
The Defense Security Service penned an OTA contract with Perspecta and several non-traditional vendors to build advanced capabilities and a secure DevOps environment.
Podcasts
Critical Update: Innovation Happens Naturally—With a Lot of Work
U.S. Digital Service Administrator Matt Cutts joins the podcast to talk about the current state—and future of—one of the most wide-reaching innovation programs in government.
Modernization
Coast Guard taps DOD's AI group
The Coast Guard looks to DOD's artificial intelligence center to help with helicopter maintenance and domain awareness.
Modernization
Shoddy Contracting Practices Lead to Overbilling at EPA
A limited review by the inspector general found the agency had paid of unallowable costs.
Modernization
Report: Government Wasted More Than $300B by Not Using Commercial Tech
Federal agencies should stop custom-building tech products and services, according to the Alliance for Digital Innovation.
Modernization
HUD Is Hunting for Vendors for the Next Phase of the Centers of Excellence
The department plans to pursue six projects to improve its cloud adoption, customer experience, data analytics and customer contact centers.
Modernization
5G supply chain order worries industry, experts
Industry groups and experts want to know how rules arising from a Trump administration executive order issued will keep insecure gear out of the U.S. telecommunications supply chain.
Modernization
Under new management, Congress renews JEDI objections
House appropriators continue to worry that the Pentagon's $10 billion single-award Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract will lock the department into the same cloud system for a generation despite ongoing improvements in technology.
Modernization
VA To Codify Customer Experience As Part of Core Values
The need to consider ease, effectiveness and emotion in all decisions will become part of the department’s Code of Federal Regulations.
Modernization
GSA Selects OPM for Third Centers of Excellence
Under the program, OPM will work with industry to modernize its IT infrastructure and improve the government’s tech workforce planning.
Modernization
GSA sets cloud hub, plans major acquisition conference
A new centralized cloud resource is part of larger push by the agency to make finding services and supplies easier for federal customers.
Modernization
One City’s Journey to Filing Complaints About Police Online
Austin, Texas, debuted an anonymous online feedback form that eases the process for residents to describe interactions they have with police officers
Modernization
Supply chain task force lays groundwork for new restrictions
Work by the ICT Supply Chain Task Force will feed into new Commerce Department regulations on foreign-directed threats to the U.S. telecommunications infrastructure.
Modernization